(v. a.adv.) : pĕr-āgro, āvi, ātum, 1 (
* Part. peragratus, in the dep. signif.; v.infra), v. a. per and ager, to wander or travel through or over, to go or pass through, traverse, etc. (class.; cf. percurro).
* Lit.: provincias,Cic. de Or. 2, 64, 258.—Of bees: saltus silvasque,Verg. G. 4, 53: loca avia,Lucr. 1, 926: in peragrandā Aegypto,Suet. Aug. 93: peragratis partibus,Vulg. Act. 19, 1.—Of sailing: litora Liburnicis,Suet. Calig. 37: eques Romanus qui et commercia ea et litora peragravit,Plin. 37, 3, 11, § 45; Flor. 2, 7, 6; Just. 12, 10, 1.
* Dep. only in part.: peragratus omnes Germaniae partes, etc.,Vell. 2, 97, 4.
* Trop., to go through, traverse, to spread through; to search through, penetrate: omne immensum peragravit mente animoque,Lucr. 1, 74: eloquentia omnes peragravit insulas,Cic. Brut. 13, 51: cujus res gestae omnes gentes terrā marique peragrassent,id. Balb. 6, 16; id. Mil. 35, 98; id. Cael. 22, 53.—Rarely with per: orator ita peragrat per animos hominum, ut, etc.,Cic. de Or. 1, 51, 222: gula peragrans,a roving appetite,Gell. 7, 16, 6.—Hence, * pĕrăgranter, adv., in roving about, Amm. 14, 1, 6.

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